stuck0nfuckingu:

lol this is me 

So when you leave here tonight, know that at least one person believes in you.

"‘Little Monsters’ would be the new fans, and ‘Monsters’ would be the ones who’ve been around for a while, they gotta grow up sometime!"  - Lady Gaga. (x)

"You are the most bad ass fans in the whole world and everybody wants to be you. Everybody wants to be that free."  - Lady Gaga about her Little Monsters.

(…) I would meet fans who were beat up outside of school or had to move high schools because they were teased for being fat. I can go on and on about the stories. But it wasn’t until they shared their stories with me that I realized how like them I was, and I began to relive all of my struggles as a teenager. It’s about society, but it’s also about pledging a certain allegiance to your fan base. It’s not like, ‘Thanks for buying my record, fuck you;’ it’s like, ‘Thanks for buying my record — and I will live and die and breathe my work and my art to protect your dreams. Because you protect mine. You can’t just make music and ignore your fans and ignore the effect they’ve had on you.

"I always want a little dirt on my shoe, I always want one more stairwell to climb, I always want to have to walk up a walk-up, you know? And not have an elevator built into my walk-up to survive. Because I think that’s when you lose focus, is when you forget. You forget how you got to the top, and once you forget how you got to the top you forget everybody that helped you, and you forget everything that inspired you, and then you wake up one morning and that inspiration and that creativity gives you a one ol’ middle finger that says “You forgot me. You denied me, and I’m the reason for you.” So I’ll fuck myself up all the way to the top, just to keep it real."  - Lady Gaga.